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Eric McCormack

Actor

Handsome, charming and blessed with impeccable comic timing, Emmy Award-winning actor Eric McCormack earned accolades as a star on one of television's most ground-breaking and beloved sitcoms. Classically trained on the ... Read more »

Handsome, charming and blessed with impeccable comic timing, Emmy Award-winning actor Eric McCormack earned accolades as a star on one of television's most ground-breaking and beloved sitcoms. Classically trained on the stage, he performed with the revered Stratford Shakespeare Festival for five seasons prior to earning screen time on such shows as "Lonesome Dove: The Series" (CTV, 1994-95) and in the Eddie Murphy feature comedy "Holy Man" (1998). Almost immediately thereafter, McCormack won the heart of television audiences as one-half of a wacky, platonic couple on the hit series "Will & Grace" (NBC, 1998-2006). Notable for its envelope-pushing message of tolerance, wrapped in exceptionally saucy humor, the sitcom not only made stars of McCormack and his co-star Debra Messing, but also the show's manic supporting players, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally. During and after the award-winning, eight-year run of "Will & Grace," the actor kept busy with his Broadway debut as "The Music Man" in 2001, as a reporter uncovering a deadly government cover-up in the miniseries "The Andromeda Strain" (A&E, 2008), and as a charismatic, social-climbing con man in "Who is Clark Rockefeller?" (Lifetime, 2010). McCormack's proven appeal and impressive range in virtually any genre assured him a robust professional future, filled with varied roles in projects of any stripe.

Finnigan McCormack

Ryerson Polytechnical University

Banff School of Fine Arts

Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute

Cast in lead role as schizophrenic genius Daniel Pierce on TNT's "Perception"

2009

Co-starred with Tom Cavanagh as ad-men on the TNT drama "Trust Me"

2009

Landed recurring role on "The New Adventures of Old Christine" (CBS)

2006

Executive produced the Lifetime comedy "Lovespring International"

2006

Replaced David Schwimmer in the U.S. premiere of Neil LaBute's "Some Girl(s)"

2001

Replaced Craig Bierko in the title role of the Broadway revival of "The Music Man"

2000

Played Mel Ferrer in the ABC biopic "The Audrey Hepburn Story"

1999

Co-starred in the feature "Free Enterprise"

1998

Played supporting role in the Eddie Murphy vehicle "Holy Man"

1998

Featured in the NBC miniseries "A Will of Their Own"

1998

Landed breakthrough role opposite Debra Messing on the NBC sitcom "Will & Grace" as longtime friends who live together in NYC; earned consecutive Golden Globe nominations from 2000-2004 and Emmy nominations for 2000, 2003 and 2005

1997

Co-starred in the thriller "Exception to the Rule" (HBO)

1995

Played Col. Francis Clay Mosby on the syndicated series "Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years"

1995

Featured in the ABC TV movie "The Man Who Wouldn't Die"

1994

Featured in the syndicated sci-fi TV movie "Island City"

1992

Appeared in the NBC movie "Miracle on I-880"

1992

Co-starred in the Canadian film "The Lost World" and its sequel "Return to the Lost World"

1991

Made U.S. TV debut on an episode of the CBS series "Top Cops"

1991

First significant acting role, playing a detective on the Canadian series "Street Justice"

1985

Joined the acting company at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario

Raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

"The great irony in this is people asking me how it feels to play a gay character. But the weird thing is this is the closest character to me I've ever played. Aside from Will's sexuality, his sense of humor is my sense of humor." – McCormack on his character on the NBC sitcom "Will & Grace," to the New York Post, Sept. 28, 1998

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"When we were young my sister always used to play the sheriff and I would play the deputy, and she was my younger sister! I just like character parts. I'm not comfortable with the romantic lead. I think because Will isn't a traditional leading man, that frees him up and frees me up." – McCormack quoted in the Boston Globe, Dec. 4, 1999

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McCormack on playing Harold Hill in the hit Broadway revival of "The Music Man": "I will pray desperately that I don't fall off the lip of the stage." – from People magazine, April 30, 2001